On Your Marks

I gave myself a break from a bunch of things to close out 2009 -- pokering and blogging included. Now we're starting off fresh with a new poker results spreadsheet (four entries already in it) and a new year.

2010 is shaping up to be a year of sea change. Most people don't like change. It makes them uneasy because change represents uncertainty, a deviation from the routines that those people have constructed out of their lives. Maybe there's a value to stability but to me "routine" sounds boring. I'm more at ease when life is constantly evolving. Like the shark, I need to be always moving forward. Stasis is death.

That's why I'm looking forward to 2010 even though it does not look to be the easiest of years. To start the year most of the poker world is headed to the Bahamas for the annual social retard convention otherwise known as the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Somehow this is the one major tournament series I've yet to cover. That's one thing that's not going to change this year.

But lots of other things will be changing this year -- of that there is no doubt. While all the kids are at Atlantis I'll be plugging away at the first of those changes from my home in Vegas. Viva la revolucion.